Death itself is too big to take in, she already sees that; the loss comes at you instead in an infinite number of small installments that can never be paid off.

People say that time is a great healer. Which people? What are they talking about? I think some feelings you experience in your life are written in indelible ink and the best you can hope for is that they fade a little over the years.

The best musicians answer something in you when you don't even know the question.

Anyone suffering Downton Abbey withdrawal symptoms will find an instant tonic.

When you're young your mother shields you from the world because she thinks you're too young to understand, and when she's old you shield her because she's too old to understand - or to have any more understanding inflicted upon her. The curve of life goes: want to know, know, don't want to know.

In death, we are not defined by what we did or who we were but by what we meant to others. How well we loved and were loved in return.

A mother of a one-year-old boy is a movie star in a world without critics.